In-Field Peduncle Detection of Sweet Peppers for Robotic Harvesting: a comparative study

Lessons Learnt from Field Trials of a Robotic Sweet Pepper Harvester

In this paper, we present the lessons learnt during the development of a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can autonomously harvest sweet pepper (capsicum) in protected cropping environments. Robotic harvesting offers an attractive potential solution to reducing labour costs while enabling more regular and selective harvesting, optimising crop quality, scheduling and therefore profit. Our app...

A Modular Robot System for Agricultural Applications

Agricultural tasks are manifold: Dependent on the crop, the environment and the desired plant maintenance operation, properties, such as modularity, robustness, compactness or user friendly interfaces, are advantageous for the automation using a robotic system. Therefore, several robotic manipulators have been designed and built for the requirements given by the EU-FP7 project CROPS for multipl...

Comparison of the ability to recover physiological traits of hot peppers and sweet peppers after high temperature stress

Antioxidant activities of two sweet pepper Capsicum annuum L. varieties phenolic extracts and the effects of thermal treatment

Objectives: Sweet peppers Capsicum annuum L. (C. annuum) are an excellent source of vitamins A and C as well as phenolic compounds, which are important antioxidant components that may reduce the risk of diseases. The objective of this study was to evaluate their antioxidant activity under various temperatures. Materials and Methods: To compare the antioxidant activity in various temperatures (2...

Comparison of Physiological Traits of Two Sweet Pepper Cultivars under Salinity Stress

In order to investigate the effect of salinity on the physiology of two cultivars of green and orange bell peppers, an experiment was conducted at the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran in 2019. The experiment was a factorial experiment in a completely randomized design in the greenhouse, in which treatments included four salinity levels (irrigation with normal water, irrigation wi...